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No. 330,850. Patented Nov. 17, 1895.

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TILLMAN PUETZ, JR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

PLUG-TOBACCO MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,850, dated November 17,1885.

Application filed June 22, 1885. Serial No. 169,395. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, TILLMAN PUETZ, Jr., of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Plug-Tobacco Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a rear elevation of my improved machine; Fig. 2 is a top view with the charger in its forward position. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken on line 3 3, Fig. 5. Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing the charger forward, and Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section taken on line 5 5, Fig. 2, but the charger, instead of being shown in its forward position, as in Fig. 2, is shown in its rear position.

My invention relates to a machine for making tobacco into plugs; and my invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the frame of the machine, in which is journaled a driving-shaft, B, provided with a pulley, B, and connected by means of a pinion, B and cog-wheel O to a counter-shaft, (J, journaled in the frame and carrying a cam, 0 provided with additional cams, D, to lift the lower plunger for ejecting the plugs. As far as the plungers are concerned, and also the means of operating them through the cams just mentioned, and also as far as the mold and the clutch arrangement for stopping the machine at intervals are concerned, there is no material change in the machine herein shown over the corresponding parts shown and described in my application No. 150,843, filed December 20, 1884., and it is deemed unnecessary to embody a second description of these parts in this specification, and nothing thereon is claimed in this application. The charger is made in two parts, as in the machine shown in said application. They are dovetailed to the table, as shown at F, Fig. 1, so as to slide thereon, but not permitted to move vertically. The front part, I, of the charger is provided with a sponge, I, to wipe the lower face or bottom of the upper plunger, and it has sides 1 between which fits the rear part, J, of the charger, connected, by means of rods L and nuts L, to

a cross bar or head, L that is dovetailed into I the table or top of the machine, as shown at L Fig. l, and is provided with friction-rollers L, that bear upon the table as the charger is moved back and forth by a cam, N, engaging a pin, 0, depending from the cross-head and preferably provided with a friction-roller, O. The cam has a hub, N, made hollow to receive a shaft or rod, 1?, on which it is turned by being connected to the main driving-shaft by means of a cog-wheel, P, and pinion P The rod or shaft is supported at one end by the frame of the machine, to which it is directly connected, as shown at P, Fig. 5, and at the other end by a bracket, T, connected at its ends to the frame of the machine, and through which the shaft B passes, as shown. The cam N has two wings or parts, one of which acts to move the charger forward, and the other of which moves it back. The former wing of the cam has an inclined face, Niwhich bears against the projection or pin 0 or roller thereon to move the charger forward, and a straight face, N, that bears against the pin or roller while the upper plunger is making its movements down and back to produce the plug. The other wing,N of the cam is preferably inclined all the way from one end to the other; but a more gradual and less acute incline is preferably made at the front than at the rear end, for the reason that the greatest power is needed to start the charger back. The front end of this wing is forward of the front end of the other wing, (see Figs. 8, 4, and 5,) so that as the cam continues to turn after the first or pressing wing leaves the pin 0 the pin will be caught behind the second wing to effect the backward movement of the charger. In Fig. 5 these parts are shown with the retracting-wing of the cam just leaving the pin 0, which enters a notch, N, at the rear end of this wing, and is then caught by the other wing (see Fig. 3) and the charger forced forward, as described. The tobacco is placed in the charger between its front and back parts when it is in its rear position, (see Fig. 5,) and is compressed horizontally by the back part of the charger moving forward independently of the front part until nuts V on the rods L come against a cross-bar, V, secured to the sides of the front part of the 1. The combination, with a frame, charger I J, and drivingshaft, of the charger-operating mechanism comprising a pin depending from the charger, camshaft, devices connecting the driving and camshafts, and a cam formed with a hub mounted on the cam-shaft, a wing having an inclined face to advance the charger and a straight face to hold the charger, and an inclined wing for retracting the charger, operating substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with a frame, charger I J, and driving-shaft, of the charger-operating mechanism comprising a pin depending from the charger, camshaft, devices connecting the driving and cam shafts, and a cam formed with a hub mounted on the cam-shaft, a wing having an inclined face to advance the charger and a straight face to hold the charger, and a wing for retracting the charger, projecting forward in front of the other wing and inclined from end to end, the wings having a notch at their rear ends for the passage of the pin from one wing to the other wing, operating substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with a frame and chargeroperating mechanism, of a charger consisting of a front part having side pieces secured thereto, a rear part fitting between the side pieces, cross-bar secured to the side pieces behind the rear part, cross-head in rear of the crossbar, rods connecting the cross-head to the rear part through the cross-bar, and stops on the rods to limit the movement of the crosshead toward the cross-bar and the rear part within the front part, substantially as set forth.

TILLMAN PUETZ, JR.

In presence of- GEo. H. KNIGHT, SAuL. KNIGHT. 

